The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Quote by Epictetus
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Epictetus Quotes
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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